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and partly as picks, when held in the hand. Another implement 
of the same type (fig. 11), viz., flat, with a sharp semi-circular 
edge, exhibits evidence of much more careful workmanship ; it is 
7 inches long, by 31 inches wide, and H inches thick at the 
butt end. It is gradually thinned away towards the lower end, 
where it terminates in a carefully worked semi-circular edge. This 
specimen belongs to Dr. 11. C. Brown. 
Largo flakes, eight or ten 
inches long, rounded and thick 
at one end, thinned away to- 
wards the point, having a 
little lateral trimming, were 
frequently found. These, too, 
when held in the hand, would 
form very effective tools for 
working into theehalk. Smaller 
thin flakes, of which several 
specimens are upon the table. 
They are four or five inches 
long, of various shapes, but all 
thin and sharp at the edges ; 
they have all received trimming 
round the edges, some have 
only had the angles taken off, 
others have been trimmed all 
round. They are adapted for 
scooping or scraping into the 
ground, and from the numbers 
found appear to have been a 
form of tool much employed. 
When we remember that this 
particular pit was on the side 
of a hill, it is easy to see how 
useful they would be in work- 
ing the upright face of the 
chalk in which the flints are 
imbedded, we can thus under- 
Fig. 11. A wedge-shaped carefully 
worked implement, showing the bulb 
of percussion at its upper end. The 
lower end is trimmed on both sides to 
a semi-circular edge. Figs. 10 and 11 
may be termed either diggers or hand- 
choppers, and were probably not in- 
tended for hafting. 
stand their abundance. 
Hand -choppers . — For want of a better name a number of worked 
